US Congress revives anti communism act
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Coming back to the old days of McCarthyism
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The “Crucial Communism Teaching Act” is now being read in the Senate, where it is all but certain to pass. The move comes amid growing public anger at the economic system and increased public support for socialism.
The Crucial Communism Teaching Act, in its own words, is designed to teach children that
“certain political ideologies, including communism and totalitarianism … conflict with the principles of freedom and democracy that are essential to the founding of the United States.”
Although sponsored by Republicans, it enjoys widespread support from Democrats and is focused on China, Venezuela, Cuba and other targets of U.S. empire. The wording of the bill has many worried that this will be a centerpiece of a new era of anti-communist hysteria, similar to previous McCarthyist periods.
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During the Cold War period in some third world countries controlled by the USA, reading or carrying a book written by Karl Marx, or Federick Engels, or any soviet leader was a capital sin, or a crime. and many peoples were incarcerated . That was the exportation of Freedom and Democracy.
It is only a right wing hysteria, there are not any communists books at the US public schools, nobody is teaching about the collected works of Marx and Engels, even more, millions of peoples have not read one preface of the Communist Manifesto.
That could prove to be counter-productive from their own point of view. Being taught about “communism” may lead some to go further and seek out what the word originally meant and so to realise that the so-called “communist” countries aren’t communist. Actually, as Lew points out here, they don’t even claim to be.
That could prove to be counter-productive from their own point of view. Being taught about “communism” may lead some to go further and seek out what the word originally meant and so to realise that the so-called “communist” countries aren’t communist. Actually, as Lew points out here, they don’t even claim to be.
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Precisely, that is what really happened during the 60 and 70, when government prohibited the reading of Marx, Engels and Lenin works, youngsters and workers started to read them, and they were carrying pamphlets inside comic books and playboy magazine as camouflage, and workers listened shortwave radio with broadcasting ( they were prohibited too ) from Russia, Cuba, China and Albania, but with the only difference that many peoples became attracted toward China and Albania instead of real communism
The real concept of socialism/communism was never learned, and the real conception of Leninism was never learned either, when the WSM forum in Spanish was established it was a surprise and shock for many of them to read about Lenin state capitalists conceptions, and the real true that none of them were socialists or communist, and that the real socialist was Martov, for most of them based on the propaganda distributed by the Maoists and the Stalinist, Leninism was considered a communist conception
Several organizations dumped Castroism in order to adopted Maoism and Hoxhaism during the controversy with the Soviet Union and the so called soviet social imperialism, now the case with the USA might be different because workers might learn that those so called communists countries never established communism and also those countries never said that they were communists either, and in our time the access to Marx and Engels works are widely distributed in the Internet, and they might also learn that socialism/communism in one country it is just a fallacy from both sides
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